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One more pic.

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I noticed this McD riding cultivator on Craigslist today. Price is right ($150). Can’t tell much about the condition.

http://newjersey.craigslist.org/grd/5507357544.html

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Not a great pic, but this link shows Tim Huppe at Sanborn Mills Farm with a Barden cart built for oxen.

https://staceycramp.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/sanbornmillsfarmoxen_235.jpg

-Jake

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I’ve enjoyed following this thread. Gives me a lot to think about. We sold our Haflingers this summer after we realized that we didn’t have the skill or experience to get them working well and keep them that way. It’s not that they were bad animals, but they certainly weren’t good for us, and we weren’t much good for them. An Amishman bought them, and right away took them on a 50-mile road trip in harness. I spoke to him a few weeks later and had a conversation like this:

“So the horses are working out pretty well, then?”

“Oh, yeah, they’re working out fine. No problems.”

“That’s great.”

“Yeah, I meant to ask you, do they have names?”

“You mean, you’ve been driving them for this whole time and didn’t know their names?”

Clearly, some things that are important in human communication (like names, for instance) aren’t nearly as important when it comes to communicating with work animals.

-Jake

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Goats have been sold. Thanks.

Jake

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Couldn’t get the pics to upload, but can email them. The goats are located in central NJ.

Thanks.

Jake

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Pics didn’t upload the first time. Trying again here.

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Team has been sold.

Thanks,

Jake

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Here are a few pics of the team.

Thanks,

Jake

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Thanks, guys. Really appreciate the encouragement. Yesterday we hitched to the stone boat (as Lynn Miller describes in Training Workhorses/Training Teamsters) and drove them around and around our 5 acre vegetable field. Certainly our best day out so far. They were more inclined to walk and I was able to be much easier on the lines. Progress!

Jake

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Thanks, guys. I really appreciate the advice.

Jake

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I’ve never seen or used a trailer gear mower, but Paul Hauser (who farms in southeastern PA) gives it a ringing endorsement. Thanks to Stephen Leslie — the quote below comes from his book “The New Horse Powered Farm.”

Hauser: “We purchased several ground-driven mowers during what I refer to as our ‘learning curve’ before we purchased the mower I still use today: an International no. 9 trailer gear mower that has the extra-wide wheels. The International no. 9 series of mowers consisted of three models — high gear, regular gear (the most popular), and the trailer gear model. These were the last ground-drive mowers that International made and featured enclosed gears. In our locality the trailer gear model is now the most sought-after model — it is a slower-geared machine and when properly tuned it just quietly hums along. The extra-wide wheels give the slower-geared model added traction and keep it moving in the heaviest stands of hay.”

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Great. Thanks, Bill. I think that’s what we’ll do, then.

Jake

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Here’s a related question: how do you all apply the seed on a field like that? With a grain drill? We have a 6+ acre pasture that was mostly foxtail and cocklebur by the end of last season, with a little clover in the undergrowth. I’d love to get more grass and clover established this spring, and am considering either frost seeding (low-tech and cheap) or having our neighbor come with a drill (more expensive). Anyone had luck frost seeding orchard grass or other grasses? Thanks!

-Jake

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Hey all —

I just noticed this ad on the Hudson Valley Craigslist, which includes a Pioneer forecart ($700), and other things (manure spreader, nylon harness, disc, White Horse Machine two row cultivator).

http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/grd/4876116888.html

Jake

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